Kugelis

Ingredients

Quantities for 8 servings.

• 2 kg Potatoes, floury variety
• 300 g Smoked bacon, diced
• 3 piece Onions
• 3 piece Eggs
• 200 ml Milk, hot
• 300 ml Soured cream, to serve
• 1 tsp Marjoram
• to taste Salt and pepper

Method

1. Render the bacon to crackling, add the chopped onion and fry it golden.
2. Grate the potatoes finely and squeeze them lightly, collecting the liquid in a bowl.
3. Let the liquid stand ten minutes, pour off the water and stir the settled starch back in.
4. Add the hot milk and the hot fat with the onion and crackling, stirring quickly.
5. Work in the eggs, salt, pepper and marjoram to an even thick mass.
6. Pour it into a greased dish in a four-centimetre layer and level it.
7. Bake at 180 °C for an hour and a half, to a deep golden crust, and rest it twenty minutes.